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Tales of Illumination, Book 2: Distortions

by Mondays Dawn

Chapter 6: Chapter 6: Me, myself, and I

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For those who are actually reading this shit, the castle where Lumos met his subconscious, is now called the Castle of Dreams Also, there are two characters I will be coloring the speech of now, their names are Mirum and Malum. ON WITH CHAPTER!

Castle of Dreams (told you :D)

I woke up in a room I barely recognized, I was in the castle of my subconscious again, last time I was here, I got a hint as to my true power, but why am I here now? I stood up from the bed I was lying on, only to notice, that UNLIKE last time, I was not in human form, but my new one. I was in the same room as last time, which in case you forgot, was an almost empty cobblestone room, not counting the bed, with a crescent moon embedded in an oak door near the bed, I also heard an odd song that seemed to come from nowhere. I opened the door, and walked down the hall to the door with a carving of the earth in it, and opened said door. The room was empty of any people, or my conscience, for that matter. The room looked like it was a Library, with books lining the shelves, they held no words on the outside, only a number. In the center of the room was a tree, it seemed to be thinnest near its center, and then branch out to cover the entire roof of the room. The lighting came from no window, fire, or electricity, but a blue, pulsating vein that ran around the wall. I pulled one of the closest books off the shelf, the front cover read "Memories of Terrance M. Volume 1," I immediately put it back, shouting "NOPE", and continued to walk around the room, on the other side was a door identical to the other door to the room. Only instead of the earth, it showed a different symbol upon the door.

I slowly opened it, to reveal another large room, this one with two beds, both with blood red sheets. The room seemed to be a large bedroom, with a carpet of the same red, with golden trimmings, a stone fireplace, in which a fire that was changing colors every few seconds was burning, there were also two deep brown dressers, each directly next to a bed. Just like the last room, there was a blue vein lighting the whole room. Red banners hung from the walls.

The door on the other end of the room opened suddenly, and two figured walked through. They stopped the moment they saw me, and stared, wide eyed. I stared back, just as shocked by what I saw. The first figure I instantly recognized, he was exactly like how I looked as a human, only with short hair, and pure grey eyes that showed no emotion or life within. He wore a black suit, shirt pants, jacket, tie, all black, also he wore leather shoes. The other figure was like nothing i had ever seen before. It had arms and legs like a human, as well as a normal torso, but they were covered in a rainbow of feathers. It's legs were similar to those of birds, but its hands seemed to be changing every few seconds. There were two wings of the same colors on the rest of it's body. It had a human face that looked exactly like my own, and its eyes... its eyes flashed every color that ever has, and ever shall exist so rapidly it could give you a seizure, except for its irises, which were the color of pure gold. It also wore blue jeans for some reason. I cocked my head at them, and said, "Who are you, and what are you doing in my head?"

The human answered, with a grin "It's so fun to leave you guessing, but I may as well answer. I am Malum, and the being standing beside me is Mirum, we are also you. You see, when you absorbed Discord, your conscience was split in two, one lawful, one chaotic, although, you can probably tell which is which just by looking." he said with a bit of a chuckle.

The other, who Malum said was called 'Mirum,' said "Malum, you leave out so much, like the fact that my name means 'paradox,' while your name, literally means e--"

"Shush!" Malum said, cutting him off, "We both know thats inaccurate!"

What’s inaccurate? I thought. They both looked at me.

Malum said, "I already said, it is. Not. Important. Also, stop thinking so loud." I just stared at him.

"...what?"

It was Mirum who responded this time, "we can hear your thoughts, one of the... perks, of being what we are." he said, bending air quoting 'perks' sarcastically.

"So... you guys are the beings that live in the dark recesses of my mind?"

"Not anymore!"

"Wait, what?"

"By visiting here, you broke a small hole in the wall between conscious thought, and subconscious thought, allowing us to speak to you while you are awake, the problem, is that we will be trapped it the external world, and none of us can return to this place. Ever. We will only be visible to you, and other seers, like Sparky, and Clare."

"Wait... Sparky is a seer? Also, how can I tell a seer apart from an ordinary power user?" Mirum rolled his eyes

"Yes, he is a seer. As for your second question, a seer is different in one way: their powers are not based off of matter, light is energy, gravity is energy, electricity and fire, all energy powers. While earth, poison, smoke, water, and such are matter based."

"Wait," I said, speaking out-loud, "So, there ARE other seers, its just that me, Clare, and Sparky are the only ones who are Seers from 'our' Equestria?"

"Well, and Carlos, but he died. Anyway, your about to wake up, so In order for us to leave, you... kind of have to accept us as you, and you as us, or something. Also, in order for this whole thing to work, we will need occasional control of your body."

I stared at him for a good five seconds, trying to process what he said before speaking, "So... I have to let you guys use my body every once in a while, and in exchange, I get voices in my head?" Mirum laughed at this.

"Not exactly, you get to choose when, and how long we are in control, your body will change to match how we look to you right now when we are in control. You will be able to have minor control over your actions, and you only need to give us five minutes a week, or more, if you choose. This can also unleash dormant power, and we are able to help you find things out faster, sort of, if something is familier, but you can't place where you remember it from, we can look through your memories for where you've seen it before."

"... How long do I have to make this decision again?" I asked.

"You will be able to visit here once a week as well, but only until you decide, and every visit expands the hole, so if you don't decide quickly, you will go insane."

I looked at them both weighing my options, and said, "I suppose we can try. I accept you. This is probably a dream anyway."

They turned to each-other, exchanged a high-five, and shouted "WE'RE FREE!!"

The world began to slowly break apart, exactly as the last time I exited this place. After that, I woke up.
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-_My temporary room_-

I opened my eyes to see my new room in the castle, it was the day after Noctis' and Die's duel. The room wasn't particuarly large, but it had a good bed, a dresser full of clothes (how they made more jeans, and where they got a suit of dark brotherhood armor like that in Skyrim, I'll never know), and a mirror. I saw Mirum and Malum, standing next to the bed. Malum looked at me, and grinned. I wish I could say I was calm, but lets be honest: I let out a loud scream.

>Its about time! We've been waiting for well over an hour!< He said with a coy grin.

"I thought it was just a dream! How are you real?!" I shouted, wide eyed. They both laughed, and Mirum decided to answer my question.

<We already told you, your conscious split into us! We are the same as wisps, only a seer can see us, so I recommend telling Clare quickly, and if there ARE any other seers, well, at least it will make an interesting conversation starter.>

I rolled my eyes, and said "I don't even know where Clare’s room is. How am I supposed to find and tell her before she sees you." At this, Malum rolled his eyes.

>How should we know?<

... True...

<Yes it is.> Said Mirum.

"Wha? Oh right, you can hear my thoughts, right?"

Mirum cracked a smile, <Eeyup!> This elicited a chuckle from me... I wonder, I thought, does it count as laughing at your own joke, if it was an alternate personality?

<Nnnope!>

Damn it Mirum, stop it! I thought at him, chuckling slightly.

Mirum stopped almost immediately, <So... When are you gonna try out our powers?>

I never thought about that... maybe later today, if I can find an excuse to leave Canterlot for a few hours.

Mirum and Malum exchanged a glance which I'm pretty sure was excitement.

"So... Any idea's?" Mirum face-palmed while Malum rolled his eyes

>We could just leave via dark passage after saying 'I'm going out.'<

... Very well, and who would we need to tell, anyway, its only for a little bit.I thought as I opened a dark passage in the middle of the room, and stepped through.
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... Mirum? I thought right after I stepped out, and as my eye my eye twitched.

<Yes?>

Why are we HERE OF ALL PLACES?! I thought screamed.

<Well, we seem to have chosen different locations... and this is the midpoint... We're lucky we aren't inside a rock, actually.>

... Ok, I say we warp again before things get any more awkward. Also, I say we go to the area where I set up the hut here.

... Oh, right, not explaining anything, right. Well, when I stepped out of the passage, it didn't take a genius to figure out that, for the first time, it went to the wrong place, and... We are now in Princess Luna's room, and Luna and Noctis (pony form, you know, blue pegasus, brown mane?) were in bed... Well, we are all caught up.

For a good few seconds, we were just staring at each other, before I slowly backed toward another dark passage, whilst saying "I'm going to leave for now, and come back when less weird shit is happening."

Noctis smirked "Alright, but your two new 'friends' will have to explain themselves first." I stopped at that, and my eyes widened a little.

"Wait, you can see them? Well, thats a surprise." Looks like Noctis is a seer...

>No shit, Sherlock.<

"Yeah, I can see them. Why, shouldn't I be able to?" Noctis asked. Luna gave us a look.

"Yes, why should we not be able to see your friends? Are you casting an invisibility spell on them or something? If so, you need to work on it a bit, they're more visible than Celly's flank when she eats too much cake." She said, grinning a little.

I rolled my eyes, "Well, to start off, their names are Mirum and Malum, they are my Conscience..." I gestured to Mirum, "Mirum is the embodiment of my chaos. The other is Malum," I continued, making the proper gesture at Malum, who gave a slight bow of his head in respect, "who is the embodiment of my 'order’ energy, I only became aware of them earlier today myself. The very fact that you two can see them means quite a bit, either you are both Naturally seers, or the Orbs have even more power than I originally thought"

They were both silent for a moment, and Luna spoke up. "Well, my sister and I are able to raise the sun and moon because of those orbs, so I'm guessing it's probably the latter of the two explanations. Also, why are they called Paradox and Evil?"

I looked at Malum with a bit of an angry look in my eye, "So THAT'S what you said 'wasn't important,' and 'inaccurate,' if it weren't a direct breach of our contract, I wouldn't let you have any control, damn mental contracts." Malum grinned sheepishly and scratched the back of his head. Mouthing the word sorry. He then shot a glare at Luna, quickly changing it to a look of surprise as Noctis got out of the bed, switched to my human form, and placed a hand on Tsuki no me, all the while staring at him with a face completely devoid of emotion.

"Ok.I’m running out of patience here, so I’m going to ask once. What are you doing here, and what’s this about a contract."

I looked right into his eyes, showing little to no emotion on my own face as well, “I guess I’ll answer your second question first, as I actually know the answer to it. I made a contract with them that requires them to control my body for at least 5 minutes a week each, or more if i need their help.” Noctis raised an eyebrow in what seemed like curiosity, “As for the first question, I was trying to use a dark passage, and... we each chose a different location... I’m lucky I’m not inside a rock or something.”

Luna giggled a little, and the four of us turned to her. She almost burst out into full-blown laughter before regaining her composure. "I apologise, but you're not the only one that has happened to in the past."

I blinked twice, "Really? Who else has this," I waved a hand at Mirum and Malum, "happened to?"

Luna's. "You must swear that this conversation will never be heard by anypony outside this room. Not Die," She said, looking at me, "Not Clare or Ventus," She turned to Lumos, Mirum and Malum, "And most definitely not, my sister."

Everyone in the room nodded, and the princess began her story, "When Celestia and I were still relatively new to being rulers, we had just started learning to teleport, and she tried performing it with two young unicorns, one of whom was Starswirl the Bearded. However, they had never agreed on a destination before casting the spell, all of them thinking up a different location, and they ended up teleporting right into a concert hall in the middle of a performance. Starswirl and the young unicorn were unharmed for the most part, but Celestia, she got a cello stuck to her horn, and it took well over an hour to pry it off. It's why I call her Celly sometimes."

"Thats... Interesting" I said,

Both Mirum and Malum suddenly burst into laughter, <THAT WAS HILARIOUS!> Mirum shouted, almost falling over. I sighed and shook my head, watching them roll around on the floor, laughing their arses off.Luna and Noctis rolled their eyes at the antics of my other selves, before the princess of the night held up a hoof for silence. Wow, she stopped you guys immediately, I'm a little scared now.

"Now that you're laughing fit is over, it's almost time for you to begin training the Lunar Guards, Noctis. Have fun." Her horn then flashed, and I once more felt the sickening sensation, of teleporting, while thinking NOOOOO!

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-_Training grounds_-

Next thing I knew, we were at the training grounds, where Noctis and Die had their bout the day before. With all of the Lunar guards (I think thats all of them, at least) off to the side.

"You know, I think she enjoys giving us headaches." Noctis muttered.

I chuckled, "You're lucky, all you have is a headache, meanwhile, I'm about to puke." I said, clutching my stomach. "Do you mind if I take control of this training session?"

I just shrugged. "Sure. If you want. Just call me when it's my turn to train them. In the meantime, I'll be taking a nap. I didn't get much sleep, according to Luna."

I raised my eyebrows, "Oh, is that so? I'm surprised your relationship has gotten that far already!" I said in a joking tone.

His eyes became slits, as he glared at me, "It wasn't like that. Apparently I was screaming and clutching my head in agony last night, and when it was over I suddenly switched forms, which she said should only have happened the first time. She brought me to her room so she could do something if it happened again. Honestly, I already have a clue what it means, but I don't want to worry her."

I rolled my eyes, and said, "Yeah, be right back," as I fell into a dark passage I opened in the ground below me. We're going to... wherever Clare is, I think that can work!
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-_A random castle hallway_-

I fell out of the darkness two feet away from Clare. Cool, that worked! I then proceeded by saying "Come with me," grabbing her hand, and going into another dark passage, all in a matter of seconds.

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-_Back at the training grounds_-

As I exited the grounds, I noticed that Clare was seeming very, very confused by the sudden appearance of Mirum and Malum. I then said to her, as I let go of her hand, "Sorry about this, as for those two, I'll explain later, could you please increase the gravity to 20 times that of this planet within these grounds for my training of the guards?" Clare let what I said sink in, then nodded, and began to focus. I suddenly felt very, VERY heavy. By a very rough estimate, 5 times Equis' (Equis: name of the bloody planet) gravity is equal to earth's gravity. So this should be about four times the gravity of earth.

I turned to Noctis, "Brace yourself."

Noctis nodded, "Sure, just wake me when it's my turn to train them. Oh, and if you start seeing any floating images emanating from me, that's just because of the lunar orb. Sometimes it projects my dreams for some reason," with that, he lay down beneath one of the few trees in the area, sighed, and went to sleep. Meanwhile the gravity rapidly increased to the point where it was hard to move for me, I managed to walk over to the guard, and said "Now, lets get started!"
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-_Same location_-

Roughly two hours of painful training (for me, and the guards) later. I had decided that they had, for the most part, earned a ten minute break. This was also because Clare was starting to have difficulty holding the gravity much longer. The first thing that left a guards mouth after it was lifted, of all things, was a comment on how light their body felt.

Hey, Malum.

>Yes?<

Why didn't you want me to know what your name meant?

>Well, thats because I wasn't entirely sure as to whether or not you would react... the way you did when Luna told you.<

I see...

Suddenly, there was a small burst of light from where Noctis was napping, and... he began to project his dreams, now, isn’t that damn good plot convenience?

He and die were in a sewer of sorts. Noctis walking in front of Die. They looked younger than they do now, like... early teens.

After a few minutes, the Die image spoke, saying "Ugh, are we THERE YET?" ... yup, early teens

The Noctis image closed it's/his eyes, and tried to breath deeply, only to gag on the assumed stench of the sewer. It/he turned back to face the Die image, and whispered "Die, for the last time, no, we're not there. Now be quiet. Do you want to alert whatever creatures are down here of our presence?"


The image of Die was silent, and held a sheepish grin upon her face, as they continued their trudge through the sewer.

I turned to the guards, and said, "I'm adding a few minutes to the break. Use it wisely." I then turned back to this 'projection' of sorts.

The images of Die and Noctis had come to a large open area, and what I saw caused my stomach to heave, and brought back horrifying memories of my own. What I saw, was piles of bones, some with flesh on them, whole corpses that had been gutted and torn limb from limb. The amount of blood in cages said they were likely still alive when all this occurred. The images of Die and Noctis were obviously dealing with their own breakfast's revolting against them, as they began to look around the room for something. Soon, they found small creatures. They were humanoid beasts that had large tortoise shells around their bodies, their necks would extend every little bit. They also had grilled heads, webbed feet, and some fur, covering their shoulders, legs, and their claws. The majority were carrying tridents. A single word bounded from the scene, echoing around the training grounds a few times. That word was 'Sahagin.'

They were all gathered around a little girl, who had been beaten, tears, mucus and blood covering her body as her cries and pleas for life echoed around the open area. The tallest of the creatures stepped forward, its trident, also much larger than the other ones, was caked in blood. Probably from the children that made up the piles of bodies. Noctis' image muttered something to the Die image, and rushed forward, but he was too late. The tall one brought his trident down on the child's throat. Followed by raising it again, and stabbing her in the chest. Noctis froze as the child's gaze fell upon him. The words formed on her lips, the word 'Why?' as she took her terminal breath.

The creatures then took note of Noctis, and began to advance on him, while the tallest just stood as well, studying him. Noctis was still staring at the small child's face.

The creatures then began to shiver uncontrollably, Die was calling Noctis' name, and he was being encased in ice. Noctis had no reaction, nor did he react when the ice began to form an armor around his body. Then the ice exploded, and it happened.

Noctis rose from his knees, and muttered something, and charged. The vast majority of the creatures didn't even live through the first second, being decapitated, torn apart, or just gut, at rates I could barely follow. Several of those that did last past the first instant tried to attack, only for their weapons to bounce off of his ice armor, which looked like the Daedric armor from Skyrim to me, only see through. The attacking creatures died with only a single movement of his arm. The remaining ones either tried to run, or were paralyzed with fear, they were quickly caught by Noctis, who then carried them to where the tallest had killed the small child, and he slit their throats.

The tallest was trembling with rage, and charged Noctis, trying to hit Noctis with his own trident. This one didn't bounce off with no effect though. It put a sort of large crack in the armor. When it tried to bring the spear down again, Noctis grabbed the spear in one hand, and shoved it away with the other, causing it to stumble back. Noctis then broke his trident in half on his knee. The thing then spat a narrow, high pressure stream of water at Noctis, which caused him to be pushed back for a moment. The stream then rapidly transformed into a pillar of ice from the armor. He then shot several spears of ice at the creature, hitting its shoulders and hips. The spears melted a few seconds later, but the holes in the body seemed too big for any of his limbs to recover, ever. Noctis' blade rose in his hand, darkness swirled around it, and then he beheaded it. The head stopped next to the body of the little girl that it had killed only moments before.

I couldn't take it anymore. I got back up, walked over to the guards, and said "Training resumes when Noctis wakes up, do not bother me." While thinking Crater where we fought Akumu. Then I opened a dark passageway, and ran in as quickly as I could, before my emotions began to show.
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-_I already said it_-

When I stepped out of the darkness, I was a mess. I had not only remembered 'day one.' Again IN DETAIL, but I had just seen even worse, at least the man who killed my family didn't torture small children, and just killed them quickly. My last bit of composure then slipped away, and I began to cry at the memories of the deaths of those who were formerly known as my only living relatives.

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I felt my body begin to change, but not like my normal transformations, this one was different somehow. To start, red scales began to come out of my body, and covered the entire thing but my scalp, and wings. Without any form of control over my actions, I slowly reached over my shoulders, and tore off both of my wings, only for the wound to be covered with the red scales as well. My fingers each became a sharp claw, with the same flexibility as before, and my legs grew slightly longer, as did my arms.

When the transformation was complete, it wasn't just my body that had changed, my mind had too. A sadistic smile crossed my face, and a whirlwind flashing all colors of the rainbow and beyond erupted around me, while I let out a roar. A roar of anguish. A roar of loss. A roar... of rage.
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A/N:Yes, the whole alternate personality thing is a bit much, but it's fun! Plus, who are you to tell me what to write, my mother? (If my mother IS reading this, sorry :P)

Lumos: *Punches author out* Damn, I have been waiting days to do that!

Mirum: Your not the only one, bro.

Lumos: ... so what happens now?

Malum: I don't know... he was the one to decide on everything...

Lumos: YOU MEAN WE'RE FREE?!?!

Clare: Only until he wakes up...

Mirum: And whens that?

Author: *Bleeding from cut above the eye due to sharp rocks, and a smoothie* Why did you hit me?

Lumos: Damn, I knew it was short-lived... RUN, BEFORE HE GETS THE BOX!!!

*Oc's scatter*

Author: ... Damn, its going to take days to get them all back in their proper boxes...

MaDmAN12435/Cloud Nova falling out.

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